Watch List notes:

LYDIA. Saitta. Pseudo-autonomous issue. Assarion (Bronze, 21 mm, 4.64 g, 6 h), late 2nd-early 3rd century AD. ΔHMOC Laureate head of Demos to right. Rev. CAITTHNΩN / YΛΛOC The river-god Hyllos reclining right on urn from which water flows, holding reed in his left hand and cornucopiae in his right. BMC -. Martin, Saitta, 6.1 and pl. 14 (this coin). SNG Copenhagen -. SNG Leypold -. SNG München -. SNG von Aulock -. Very rare, one of apparently only three known examples. Good very fine.


From the Saitta and the Salus Provinciarum Collections, Helios 3, 29-30 April 2009, 492.